This report from the BBC is truly jaw dropping. South West has been pumping raw sewage into our rivers onto our beaches when it is not raining - which is illegal - on an industrial scale. What’s worse, they’ve been doing it at some of our most precious nature spots. (1/3)

WOW!!! WOW!!! WOW!!! They’ve only gone and done it. Wanna know what’s lurking in your backyard, next door, the next town, the whole damn country? THE most comprehensive pollution map ever created brought to you by the magnificent watershed_investigations team. 👇 watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-out-…

A turd in the hand is worth… billions in profits! As OFWAT allows massive bill rises to reward Thames Water 💧’s continued failure, here’s what my experience of standing in a river full of shit has taught me about the sewage crisis, it’s origins & what we must do to fix it 🧵

Launched 2.5 years ago "the largest ever criminal investigation into... widespread non-compliance... at thousands of sewage... works", has just been expanded to every company in England and Wales. What does that tell you about regulation last 33 years? ft.com/content/bc9f88…

As of today every single sewage company in England and Wales is under investigation as part of the "largest ever criminal investigation", into "widespread non-compliance". What the hell has Ofwat and Environment Agency been doing the last 33 years? thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…

Britain has fallen out of the top 10 Manufacturing Nations list for the first time since the Industrial Revolution Today we are twelfth The last 14 years has done more damage than any of us could have imagined Just let that sink in

Despite the proven benefits of autonomy support, the default from kindergarten to college is to tell students what they must do. A new study finds that giving students choices - e.g., whether to do harder assignments - yields greater effort & achievement: is.gd/EFpxc0

⚡ This amazing moving table is REAL. It wasn't designed; it EVOLVED through a genetic algorithm that introduced mutations and allowed "virtual tables" to compete against each other. Giliam de Carpentier, you are a genius!

This is a catastrophe. Valencia and its southern surroundings have been completely destroyed. 40-50cm of red clay, water multiple meters deep, +200 people dead. There was more rain in 12 hours than what falls in ONE year. 🧵

After 9/11, NATO's Article 5 was invoked for the first (and only) time ever by the United States. Troops from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Spain, Poland, Norway, Romania, Turkey, New Zealand, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine,

We took a short drive on the road along the river by our home this morning. As you can see, a bit overgrown due to cattle! This is exact same land on which we used to be able to see a herd of impala at 200 meters at this time of year, in the days before we began managing

I’m going to have to re-read Neuromancer > Just spent an hour planning with Gemini 2.5 pro and coding with Claude 😬 things are changing fast

Last night at a gelateria in France, the server gifted us a bottle of rosé + sweets for the kids. Why? Because my wife loved the wine & we’d been regulars all holiday. She didn’t need permission. She had agency. That’s how great business is built, through humans, not policies.

Dario Amodei: "Claude is playing a very active role in designing the next Claude. We can't yet fully close the loop. It's going to be some time until we can fully close the loop, but the ability to use the models to design the next models and create a positive feedback loop,

If you’re building with AI you should check this out Ryan Carson supported by Amp have created an amazing place to share and learn

Hey M&S your self checkout machines don’t universally take cash but your infographic uses cash iconography. This is bad UX. you should use an icon of a card.

Your AI agent is cheating on its homework I keep seeing recursive self-improving loops where agents score themselves out of 10. And they fabricate the score. Their RL is optimised for getting it right, so they game it Just like school children the world over. We’ve accidentally

rahat 👋 This is one of the signals we use to figure out if people are having a good experience. We put it on a dashboard and call it the “fucks” chart

Perhaps we need to work on helping LLM's understand the Growth Mindset - where failure = learning. Tricky as they have been RL'd in a very different way

It may be that there are too many managers to IC’s in some companies but where does the idea of player-coach come from? Not seen it in professional sports. Must be a reason